Workmen's advocate., 1887-02-12

common law for several misdemeanors against the peace of the King, and which were to the great scandal of Christianity. he was told that "although there was not now a Star Chamber, "Still they would have him know that this court is rUStoS morum of all the sub jectS of the King" The curious will find particular statement of the otfense, and the punishment m"ted out, in l keblc. G90,
 In the case of Jones vs. Randall, Loft 3Sl, heard in the Kings Bench before Lord Mansfield in l,s4, he said: "Therc is no positive law: Whatever is contrary, bouos H0rrS ct dccoIWlt, the principles of our law prohibit, and the Kings Court, as the General Censor and Guardian of the public manners is bound to restrain and punish"
 This doctrine never was adopted here, and has been abandoned in England. If in this or any other case a remedy ought to exist where there is none, the people through their representatives at the other end of the building will provide one.
 Our learned friends under the 10th point of their Brief says as follows:
 ri is a criminal conspiracy, for several to combine by concerted action, directly, to iuiurc and oppresS another in his trade or business, for no iustitaho reason"
 Could q statute give palmer definition of the oticnse v
 If it could not, it ought not to exist Is 1t to be left to the shifting rancies of committee magistrates, to determine what acts will not ''injure and oppress tl,N,. I I . are such magistrates to be left to deter mine from their own notions of what is convenient and inconvenient as to what is "justiliable reason?' If this be SO, what need for any flaw of the land?"
 The quotation from Bishops Direc- tions and Forms, Sec. 3l3, given in the brief under this point, fits well into the claims of the State; but it contains a statement of doctrine that any jurist of this age should be ashamed to avow.
 To the statement of Bishop we oppose that of Mr. Field, in his argument in the Supreme Court of the United States, in behalf of the defendant, in the case of the United States vs. Cruikshank, D2 U. s., 542, and given on page 2lO of the first volume of his speeces and argu- | ments:
 "It may not be out of place to observe that an | accusation of conspiracy is of all accusations | the most dangerous to meet, and the easiest tt make men believe in an excited community. Ii 1 is the hafshest engine of tyranny eyer used un der the form of law; and it's frequent use is the | strongest evidence of msgoycrnmcnt. From | the bloody days when the compassing OF imagn | ing the death of u king was the miserable pre- | tense, upon which tyrants took the lives and | couiscated the estates of their victims to the | present hour, no surcr proof of good OF evil | government can be found than the chapter on conspiraCies One has but tO com 1 pare the statutes of msgovcmed Ireland tc l learn what an odlouS engine of oppression Is | the law of conspiracy
 Up to the time of going to press no decision has been made by the Supreme Court. Neither have the organized workmen declared the boycott at an end. It hardly seems possible that people can be com pelled to buy the JoHrnM oud C1m'- ier or to have dealings with those who advertise in it, and the Supreme Court will probably recognize this.